12 Best poetry books like False Creek by Jane Munro

Cover of False Creek by Jane Munro

False Creek

By: Jane Munro

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature…

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1. The Undertaking of Lily Chen

By: Danica Novgorodoff

3.43

Format: 430 pages, Paperback

In the mountains of Northern China ancient custom demands that every man have a wife to keep him co… read more

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"The price of love is high- but pain- we sell it cheap."

-Danica Novgorodoff, The Undertaking of Lily Chen

"Parts of rural China are seeing a burgeoning market for female corpses, the result of the reappearance of a strange custom called "ghost marriages." Chinese tradition demands that husbands and wives …"

-Danica Novgorodoff, The Undertaking of Lily Chen

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2. Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

By: Anne Carson , Stesichorus

4.27

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

The award-winning poet Anne Carson reinvents a genre in Autobiography of Red, a stunning work that … read more

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"Under the seams runs the pain."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"There is no person without a world."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Don't want to be free want to be with you."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

"Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary."

-Anne Carson, Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse

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3. Beowulf

By: Unknown , Seamus Heaney

3.49

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Composed toward the end of the first millennium, Beowulf is the elegiac narrative of the adventures… read more

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  • poetry
"Fate goes ever as fate must."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Fate will unwind as it must!"

-Unknown, Beowulf

"Let whoever can win glory before death."

-Unknown, Beowulf

"We all know a boy can't daddy until his daddy's dead."

-Unknown, Beowulf

4. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)

By: Helene Wecker

3.90

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more

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5. Mme Proust and the Kosher Kitchen

By: Kate Taylor

3.42

Format: 8 pages, Paperback

Stretching between turn-of-the-century Paris and contemporary Canada, Mme Proust and the Kosher Kit… read more

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6. The Shipping News

By: Annie Proulx

4.04

Format: 538 pages, Paperback

When Quoyle's two-timing wife meets her just desserts, he retreats with his two daughters to his an… read more

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7. Moby-Dick or, The Whale

By: Herman Melville , Tom Quirk , Andrew Delbanco

3.55

Format: 720 pages, Paperback

"It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar … read more

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"Call me Ishmael."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Ignorance is the parent of fear."

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

"Speak, thou vast and venerable head,"

-Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

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8. The Librarianist

By: Patrick deWitt

3.41

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

From bestselling and award-winning author Patrick deWitt comes the story of Bob Comet, a man who ha… read more

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9. Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World

By: John Vaillant

4.35

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

A stunning account of a colossal wildfire that collided with a city and a panoramic exploration of … read more

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10. The Sleeping Car Porter

By: Suzette Mayr

3.46

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

When a mudslide strands a train, Baxter, a queer Black sleeping car porter, must contend with the p… read more

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"Desperate feelings can swivel into loathing."

-Suzette Mayr, The Sleeping Car Porter

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11. The Renunciations: Poems

By: Donika Kelly

4.29

Format: 94 pages, Paperback

An extraordinary collection of endurance and transformation by the award-winning author of Bestiary… read more

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12. Midway: Poems

By: Kayla Czaga

4.52

Format: 88 pages, Paperback

Honest, elegiac, characteristically strange, and frequently funny, Midway is an exploration of grie… read more

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  • poetry
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13. The Book of Grief and Hamburgers

By: Stuart Ross

3.80

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Winner of the 2023 Trillium Book Award for best book published in Ontario in 2022. A poignant me… read more

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14. False Creek

By: Jane Munro

3.73

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

In this new and masterful collection, Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jane Munro balances her signature… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of Best Canadian Essays 2023 by Mireille Silcoff

15. Best Canadian Essays 2023

By: Mireille Silcoff

3.48

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Selected by editor Mireille Silcoff, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Essays showcases the best Ca… read more

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16. Best Canadian Poetry 2023

By: John Barton

3.83

Format: 227 pages, Kindle Edition

Selected by editor John Barton, the 2023 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canadia… read more

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  • poetry
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17. The Work

By: Bren Simmers

4.75

Format: None pages, Paperback

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  • poetry
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18. Lent: Poems

By: Kate Cayley

3.69

Format: 86 pages, Paperback

In these peculiar times, we are thrust back into ourselves in a kind of suspension: one in which on… read more

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  • poetry
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19. the berry takes the shape of the bloom

By: Andrea Bennett

4.20

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

the berry takes the shape of the bloom originated as a gesture towards optimism after loss and pain… read more

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  • poetry
Cover of A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom (Laurier Poetry, 38) by Ronna Bloom

20. A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom (Laurier Poetry, 38)

By: Ronna Bloom

4.71

Format: 84 pages, Paperback

With compassion, humour and sharp-eyed irreverence, Ronna Bloom's work has made a significant impac… read more

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21. Best Canadian Poetry 2024

By: Bardia Sinaee

3.81

Format: 163 pages, Kindle Edition

Selected by editor Bardia Sinaee, the 2024 edition of Best Canadian Poetry showcases the best Canad… read more

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22. The White Light of Tomorrow

By: Russell Thornton

3.40

Format: 89 pages, Kindle Edition

A masterful new collection from award-winning poet Russell Thornton. With intense lyricism, Thornt… read more

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  • poetry
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23. Alternator

By: Chris Banks

4.17

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Alternator by Chris Banks is a masterful poetry collection that blends catastrophe and consciousnes… read more

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24. Best Canadian Essays 2024

By: Marcello Di Cintio

4.04

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Selected by editor Marcello Di Cintio, the 2024 edition of  Best Canadian Essays showcases the best… read more

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7 Top fiction books like The Renunciations: Poems by Donika Kelly

Transform Your Habits

The Tradition

Jericho Brown

4.24

Transform Your Habits

The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On

Franny Choi

3.99

Transform Your Habits

I Do Everything I'm Told

Megan Fernandes

4.17

Transform Your Habits

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Donika Kelly

4.29

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